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The City of Brisbane and the Jefferson Union High School District (Terra Nova and Oceana) have collaborated to provide transportation for students that live in town. The first day of school for the District is Thursday, August 10th. The bus will be picking up students at the same location and time as previous years - 7:00am at 50 Park Place, Brisbane. As described in the District's letter to parents, transportation will be free for the first two weeks of school. During that time, the District will compile a list of bus riders and collect the fees. Fees will be due by August 26, 2017 and the District will issue a bus pass to your student upon payment. A signed 2017-18 application form accepting the bus conduct rules must also be returned to the JUHSD (Terra Nova or Oceana) by the same date. If you have any questions, please contact the JUHSD at (650) 550-7580.

Thank you to all who attended this past Tuesday's National Night Out with our Police, Fire, and OES departments! We hope you were able to better connect not only with representatives from these departments, but your fellow neighbors, as well. Off to the side of the main event, which took place at the picnic tables in the Community Park, was OES Director Randy Breault doing a Q&A with Skyler Hallgren of The Earthquake Bag. Randy was answering community members' questions sent in about disaster preparedness as well as some questions that were posed during the Facebook Live event. In case you missed it, here's their full interview:

The City and The Earthquake Bag are partnering to help ensure that every resident has the supplies they need for the next major earthquake. Place your order before Aug. 20th and get $20 off using promo code: Brisbane20

Know that $5 from your order will be donated to Brisbane Disaster Prep + Relief Programs including CERT & The Lions Club. Thank you, gentlemen, for helping our residents get better informed and ready for the next "big one"!

At last night's City Council meeting, the City Council voted 4-1 to introduce Ord. 617 as amended to allow cannabis-related businesses in some commercial districts in Brisbane. These businesses include laboratory testing, warehousing, distribution, manufacturing, and delivery-only retail (walk-up retail establishments not allowed). A Conditional Use Permit will be required for cannabis-related warehousing, distribution, manufacturing, and deliver-only retail, so the City can understand how the business works before a permit is issued. Testing laboratories may require a Conditional Use Permit as well, depending on the districit they're located in within the city.

The Ordinance also establishes performance standards for the personal cultivation of medicinal and adult-use ("recreational") cannabis for personal consumption by eligible patients or adults 21 years or older on residential properties, consistent with State law requirements. No commercial cultivation of cannabis will be allowed in Brisbane.

The second reading of the ordinance is scheduled for the Council's September 7th meeting, with the ordinance taking effect in October (30 days after adoption). Businesses must wait until the ordinance is in effect to apply for a Conditional Use Permit.

We want to apologize for the website being offline last weekend for one day and 14 hours. We regularly add new pages to the website and during a period of re-indexing itself, the website went into maintenance mode and switched itself to "offline". The City's current website is over 2,700 pages large, so city staff is in the process of removing older content such as a Day in the Park post from 2013 in order to take some load off of the website. We are also improving the Search settings within the website and have added the ability to use Google's search mechanism if desired. See below image:

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience and disruption for the City’s website being offline for a period of time last weekend. We feel confident that the actions made over the weekend to bring the site back, plus on-going efforts to “de-clutter” the site will all help to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.

The Draft Parkside at Brisbane Village Precise Plan (Parkside Plan) has been released! The Planning Commission held a public hearing on the Draft Plan at a special meeting on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. At the public hearing, the Planning Commission heard public comment on the Draft Plan and continued their deliberations to the regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room at City Hall. At the July 27 meeting, the Commission will vote on their recommendation on the Draft Plan to the City Council.

Check out the Draft Plan on the Parkside Plan Documents webpage. Hard copies of the Draft Plan are available to review at City Hall and the Brisbane Library (not available for checkout). You may purchase a hard copy of the Draft Plan for $5 at City Hall. Comments on the Draft Plan can be emailed to planning@ci.brisbane.ca.us or mailed to the Community Development Department, City Hall, 50 Park Place, Brisbane, CA 94005.

All documents related to the Parkside Plan process, including analyses of economic conditions, preferred land use scenarios, community workshop summaries, and more are also available on the Parkside Plan Documents webpage.

Station 81 Firefighters will also be present for a portion of the event. From 7:00-7:30pm, a special Facebook Live event on the topic of disaster preparedness will take place featuring OES Director Randy Breault. Leave us your questions here and Randy may answer them during the Facebook Live event.